Dreams: Excess of Business Frequently Leads To
Dreams: False Prophets
Pretended to
Not to be regarded in
Condemned for pretending to
Dreams: Vanity of Trusting to Natural
Dreams: The Ancients
Put great faith in
Often perplexed by
Gen 40:6; 41:8; Job 7:14; Dan 2:1; 4:5
Anxious to have, explained
Consulting magicians on
Dreams: God the Only Interpreter Of
Dreams: Mentioned in Scripture Of
Abimelech
Jacob
Laban
Joseph
Pharaoh's butler and baker
Pharaoh
Midianite
Solomon
Nebuchadnezzar
Daniel
Joseph
Wise men
Pilate's wife
Dreams:
The Scripture declares that the influence of the Spirit of God upon the soul extends to its sleeping as well as its waking thoughts. But, in accordance with the principle enunciated by St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 14:15, dreams, in which the understanding is asleep, are placed below the visions of prophecy, in which the understanding plays its part. Under the Christian dispensation, while we read frequently of trances and vision, dreams are never referred to as vehicles of divine revelation. In exact accordance with this principle are the actual records of the dreams sent by God. The greater number of such dreams were granted, for prediction or for warning, to those who were aliens to the Jewish covenant. And where dreams are recorded as means of God's revelation to his chosen servants, they are almost always referred to the periods of their earliest and most imperfect knowledge of him. Among the Jews, "if any person dreamed a dream which was peculiarly striking and significant, he was permitted to go to the high priest in a peculiar way, and see if it had any special import. But the observance of ordinary dreams and the consulting of those who pretend to skill in their interpretation are repeatedly forbidden." (Deuteronomy 13:1-5; 18:9-14).-Schaff.
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